The Comet in Action !!!

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  1. Lightning

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    What gears are you running ?


    Nice throttle response . It makes me want to run mine again .
     
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  2. Rick Book

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    Steve,

    Congratulations on your success in building a haul-ass Comet.

    You've definetly achieved your goal!

    Awsome video ("right click-save as" material).


    'Continued success,



    Rick
     
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    What round-up? When and Where? I want to go!!! :bananaman

    BTW Very cool video!!! I just sent the link to some of my friends!!

    Later,

    Shelby
     
    mustanggt350, Nov 20, 2003
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  4. Mavaholic

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    I tried windows Media player. Guess mine's screwed up. It says "cannot play, file is not supported"
     
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  5. Mavaholic

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    I just downloaded the latest version of Media Player. Finally got to see it. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What else can I say?
     
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  6. DAB

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    That is fantastic! Good soundtrack with the video! Really puts you in the spirit of things!:clap:
     
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  7. Maverick Guy

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    Technology is great when it works! Pretty flustrating otherwise!
     
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    what makes the COMET tick? 347 or 306? afr heads or trick flow? c-4 or c-6? It is definetly ripping the assfault.
     
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  9. CometGT1974

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    347, forged steel crank, forged steel rods, flat top pistons, 10.5:1 compression (perfectly happy on the street running on pump gas) it has Victor Jr. heads, C4 tranny, 4.56 gears. Trying to get the car into the 5's consistently.
     
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    Nothing I can add except

    that was F*(^ing Awesome....................
    Once I finish with the 2 turds i have now I am making another mav just for strait line performance.
     
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    consistent 5's

    What is going to be your next step to get into the 5's? It looks as if you have 6.30's down.:D
     

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    sure looks good keep up the good work your grill looks good but if you need one i have one that you can have if you need it was in a maverick the grill looks just like yours lights and all ????
     
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    Hero

    Well, it's clear to me now. You have just become my new hero. I want to be just like you when I grow up.:clap:

    That last run was absolutely incredible. That's exactly how I want my car to launch some day. Please post more videos whenever you can. It's things like this that help me through these long Michigan winters.:)
     
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  14. CometGT1974

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    Thanks everyone for the kind words, one of my friends here in town was kind enough to donate his time to put this video together for me but he also let me borrow his video camera!!! He didn't have much to work with since we only shot clips from two seperate trips to the track but he still did a good job. The last pass the car was making good power but actually didn't launch very well, the car actually shouldn't hop like that.....that means that the suspension is to tight and it bounced as soon as the power hit the tires, the poor 60' time of 1.49 backs it up. A 6.3 pass should 60' in the high 1.30's. I know it looks cool because of how violent it looks and sounds but i've got alot of suspension quirks to work out and then the car will be leaving alot better.
     
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    Lets see........your 1.49 vs my 2.2.............nope, not going to get any sympathy from me.
     
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